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To the Overseer. -- By David. In Jehovah I trusted, how say ye to my soul, `They moved [to] Thy mountain for the bird?

For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

For righteous [is] Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'

To the Overseer, on the octave. -- A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the saintly hath failed, For the stedfast have ceased From the sons of men:

Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety [him who] doth breathe for it.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

I do sing to Jehovah, For He hath conferred benefits upon me!

There they have feared a fear, For God [is] in the generation of the righteous.

A Secret Treasure of David. Preserve me, O God, for I did trust in Thee.

Thou hast said to Jehovah, `My Lord Thou [art];' My good [is] not for thine own sake;

For the holy ones who [are] in the land, And the honourable, all my delight [is] in them.

Lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, Yea, a beauteous inheritance [is] for me.

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys [is] with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

I -- I called Thee, for Thou dost answer me, O God, incline Thine ear to me, hear my speech.

He delivereth me from my strong enemy, And from those hating me, For they have been stronger than I.

They go before me in a day of my calamity And Jehovah is for a support to me.

For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not done wickedly against my God.

For all His judgments [are] before me, And His statutes I turn not from me.

For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.